GRE Word List
EMISSARY
one designated as the agent of another : representative
The meaning of the word emissary is one designated as the agent of another : representative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| overweening | arrogant |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| alleviate | relieve |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| brackish | somewhat salty |